Actually, I'm not so upset about this- it appears that at least some Congresscritters are on this. I don't know if they will be able to fix the problem, and $10B is just a drop in the bucket of what we're about to spend in Iraq. Still, the reason I think this story is important is that I believe it is being repeated, in every government agency, from top to bottom. The rule of law is truly dead in this country, and I guess I'm on a mission to get more people to understand that. Kudos to the Old Grey Ho for being on this, although I'm sure if I looked around, I would find a blogger who beat them to it:

The report, a result of a yearlong investigation, grew out of complaints by four auditors at the agency, who said that senior administration officials had blocked them from recovering money from oil companies that underpaid the government.

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In one case, senior officials decided that it would impose a “hardship” on oil companies to demand that they calculate the back interest they owed after having been caught underpaying. The agency itself was years behind in billing the companies, because its computers could not perform the calculations.